Monday, July 18, 2011

Get your Train Ticket (m-ticket) On Your Mobile

Good news to all indian's, all Railway passengers can now get their e-tickets on their cell phones instead of having to take print outs.Named as ‘m-ticket' the mobile phone-based ticket booking system envisages a passenger to book the ticket through mobile phones and carry the display ticket, sent to the cell phone by an SMS in a form of QR Code.The passenger need not carry a printout of his or her ticket and will have to just show the SMS. A person having Internet connection on a mobile can avail the facility by downloading the mobile ticketing application on the phone from the new Indian Railways portal.M-ticket is a part of the comprehensive Indian Railways web portal, with the URL www.indianrailways.gov.in, which has been launched to consolidate all the services and information on a single window web interface for the public.